Published: 10/11/2006 Updated: 20/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 725

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The fpathconf syscall function in bsd/kern/kern_descrip.c in the Darwin kernel (XNU) 8.8.1 in Apple Mac OS X allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file descriptor with an unrecognized file type.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/20982/info Apple Mac OS X is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability because the kernel fails to properly handle the execution of a system call Exploiting this issue allows local, unprivileged users to crash affected kernels, denying further service to legitimate users #include <unistdh> ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-09-11-2006.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20982 http://secunia.com/advisories/22808 http://www.osvdb.org/30216 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751 http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4448 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30152 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28948/https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/765096

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